https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30018
--- Comment #2 from Rd232 <[email protected]> 2011-07-26 10:41:13 UTC --- There's relatively little benefit to making people provide a verified email address at one point time. On long-lasting wikis, verification might have been 5-10 years ago. The aim of this bug is to make user rights dependent on a verified email address *on an ongoing basis*. So for example if the user removes the email address, or replaces it with another but doesn't verify it, the user rights associated with their user group are automatically suspended, until a verified email address is provided, when they're automatically re-enabled. This would be more useful if there are situations where the "verified" status of an existing email address can be automatically revoked (eg if emails to the user bounce); I'm not sure if that's the case but if it isn't that's a separate issue. I should note that this bug is partly because of a desire to use email notifications to enhance security, which is obviously dependent on a current email address. (A "verified" email address may not be current, but it's the best proxy available at the moment.) See also Bug 26227 - "Notify user by email when password changed"; Bug 29856 - "Email notification when verified email address is changed or removed"; and Bug 29857 - "Welcome back email notification after renewed account activity". -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
